Just Add Ink Challenge #463- Choose Two.

Good Day Crafty Friends

Welcome to this weeks Just Add Ink Challenge #463 - Just Choose Two. I hope you will join the Just Add Ink Crew and play along with us - it really is simple. You have a choice of using Foil, Ribbon or Sequins. Create a card using two of the options and share it with us - Simples :) The more the merrier!!!

For today's creation I decided to use some Gold Foil with a little bit of ribbon. I was originally aiming for ribbon and sequins but decided the little pearl embellishments looked prettier, so at the last minute I swapped the sequins out and added the Gold Foil die cut.

I started with a water coloured background which was then embossed using the Subtle Embossing Folder. I love this folder and especially find it useful on water coloured card fronts that maybe slightly warped from the water - the embossing flattens the card stock perfectly.

White Flax Ribbon along with a strip of DSP and scallop die cut were added to the centre of the card front with the Blushing Bride Stitched Circle Die Cut adhered over top. The Gold Foil die cut has also been adhered under the stitched circle.

The floral images have been created using the Floral Essence stamp set. To achieve the water colour washed images, simply apply a spritz of water directly to the stamp after ink application. Once dry, the images have been fussy cut and adhered to the centre of the card front with dimensionals. A few loops of Gold Metallic Twine and some Old Olive Vellum die cut leaves were tucked in behind the flowers to finish the card. 

That's all from me today, crafty friends. Be sure to stop by all the Just Add Ink Design Team members blogs for more inspiration using this weeks challenge theme - Just Choose Two.

We would love for you and your crafty friends to play along, if you have a blog you can add your creation to the Just Add Ink gallery here. Don't have your own blog? No problem! Just send us an email  to  just-add-ink@hotmail.com with a photo attachment. We will upload it to our challenge entry blog for you.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Until next time stay awesome and stay crafty.

Just Add Ink #441 - Inspiration

Good Day Crafty Friends,

Welcome to Just Add Ink Challenge #441.  One of our Design Team members, Jo Stubbings,  has chosen the most divine Inspiration Photo for us all to play along with this week. 

Would you like to join us? Use the photo below as inspiration behind a new creation and share it with us at the Just Add Ink Challenge Blog. 

Aren't the colours in that photo just yummy....and those cupcakes....oh my!!!! I have taken inspiration for my cards from the soft pastel colour palette of the cupcakes icing/frosting. A rainbow of delicate pretty colours that reminds me of unicorns, or something a unicorn would eat lol.

I love the Subtle colour family - it was the first collection of Ink Pads and Card stock I purchased when I started stamping a few years ago. I just adore Pink - especially pastel Pink. And I love it teamed with Soft Sea Foam (swoon). This collection of cards uses colours from the Subtle colour family.

The first card I made was a little 4"x 4" note card. I had a piece of Soft Sea Foam left over from a previous project which I decided to score, fold in half and use as a card base.

Such a little cutie, but it looked so small and insignificant when I was taking the photos for this blog post, so I put the camera down, went back upstairs and quickly made two other cards that could accompany the little note card.

The water coloured hearts were left over from a project I didn't end up using - these were created using the Meant To Be Bundle.  I whipped the whisper white card front through the Big Shot with the Subtle Embossing Folder before adhering the Blushing Bride Stitched Rectangle die cut frame with foam strips.  A heat embossed sentiment from the Butterfly Gala has been added over the frame and die cut hearts.

I liked the colours and frame from the second card, I decided to repeat these elements in the third card. This time I used the Tufted Embossing Folder for the card front, which has been slightly cut down and lined with Gold Foil Card stock before adhering to the Whisper White card base. The gold heat embossed and water coloured images have been created using the Floral Frames Bundle and the heat embossed sentiment is from the Amazing Life Stamp Set.

Be sure to stop by all the Just Add Ink Design Team members blogs for more inspiration using this weeks Just Add Ink Inspiration photo.

We would love for you and your crafty friends to play along, if you have a blog you can add your creation to the Just Add Ink gallery here. Don't have your own blog? No problem! Just send us an email  to  just-add-ink@hotmail.com with a photo attachment. We will upload it to our challenge entry blog for you.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Until next time stay awesome and stay crafty.

Everything I used to create the cards in today's blog post can be found in the supply list below.

Product List

Floral Frames Clear-Mount Bundle [148406] $75.50	Rectangle Stitched Framelits Dies [148551] $61.00	Be Mine Stitched Framelits Dies [148527] $61.00
Meant To Be Cling Stamp Set [148626] $42.00	Layering Squares Framelits Dies [141708] $58.00	Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder [109129] $8.75
Card Stock A4 Blushing Bride [131287] $14.75	Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] $17.00	Soft Sea Foam A4 Cardstock [147012] $14.75
Gold Foil Sheets [132622] $7.00	Basic Black A4 Card Stock [121688] $14.75	White Stampin' Emboss Powder [109132] $8.75
Subtle Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [143706] $17.00	Basket Weave Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [146841] $16.00	Tufted Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [146335] $16.00
Pearl Basic Jewels [144219] $8.75	Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin' Pad [147052] $13.00	Highland Heather Classic Stampin' Pad [147103] $13.00
Soft Sea Foam Classic Stampin' Pad [147102] $13.00	Heat Tool [129056] $50.00	Big Shot [143263] $159.00
Paper Snips Scissors [103579] $17.00	Foam Adhesive Strips [141825] $14.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $6.00
Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $7.00	Aqua Painters [103954] $20.00

Cupcakes & Carousels

Card Making is super dooper easy when Stampin'Up! offer complete suites - stamps, dies, DSP paper stacks, card stock packs, embellishment kits and Stampin'Write Markers all coordinating, so the guess work is done for you. Meaning you don't have to be overly creative to make gorgeous cards. The catalogue provides starting points to CASE (copy and share everything) cards and other projects in case you get stuck for ideas. Plus their are many sites to seek inspiration, like Pinterest, where Stampin' Up! Demonstrators and customers from all over the world share their ideas.

The Cupcakes & Carousels Suite is a wonderfully cute suite, with a slightly vintage circus theme. The colours are playful and I just adore the pony! Who didn't wanna ride the prettiest horse on the carousel lol 

I have used two different colour schemes on these cards as I know not every girl loves pink?!?! 

The Ferris wheel stamp with cupcakes cut from the coordinating DSP is so dang adorbs - very simple and easy cards, using black and white Cardstock, the Ferris wheel and sentiment stamps and some DSP from the paper stack. First stamp the Ferris Wheel in Black Archival, then add ink splashes in the colours used in the DSP paper stack. (I used my aqua painter to grab ink and then flicked the brush tip using the edge of the plastic from my Stamp-a-majig).  Using dimensionals mount this panel to a piece of DSP which has been mounted to black card stock. Adhere to card base and stamp sentiment. Then to finish them off I just die cut the cupcake tops using DSP from the same paper stack and the cloud die from the Up and Away Bundle.
 

If you would like to view or purchase any items from the Cupcake and Carousel suite, please click here.

Until my next post, wishing you a day full of crafty thoughts.

Happy Crafting xx